Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon the President was at Coal Creek, Tenn., ready to begin inspection of his multimillion dollar social-planning ''yardstick.'' Over a new concrete highway he rode five miles up the Clinch River valley. Soon he was standing on a bluff above the Norris damsite. More than 300 ft. below, the clang of machinery could be heard as great buckets of concrete slid across a cable line, slopped into the dam's coffers...
...expenses! Although twenty-three Massachusetts institutions are co-operating in the plan, it is hard to see how their students will profit much by it. the varying effects of the venture, excellent as its purpose unquestionably is, provide additional evidence of the tremendous difficulty of applying a nation-side yardstick to anything so personal as a college education. Boston Herald...
...House Plan was intended to accomplish a general cross-section of students, the equality yardstick of a cross-section should apply to House Masters, too. Just because the Master of Eliot House is six inches taller and has a voice pitched three octaves lower and ten tones louder than any House Master, is no reason why one House should have hot water and the others not have it. Tom W. C. Lilley...
...horsy and 42, President Hanes has no illusions that his tobacco board will revolutionize the tobacco industry overnight. It will no more replace the auction than the New York and New Orleans cotton exchanges have replaced the South's spot markets. But its quotations will give the farmer a yardstick; its facilities will enable him to sell his crop when he pleases, not simply when the auctions are held. And more important, if the market is active, it will permit growers, dealers, manufacturers, importers, bankers to buy insurance against price changes by hedging...
...golden opportunity to prove that Government can distribute electricity more cheaply than private capital. TVA is like a "yardstick" which may or may not lead to socialization of all U. S. Power. Dave Lilienthal swears he will include all costs in his rates, but few powermen will concede that his yardstick will be 36 in. long...